Ainsworth, J. E.Herman, Jay2024-05-062024-05-061975-01-01Ainsworth, J. E., and J. R. Herman. “Venus Wind and Temperature Structure: The Venera 8 Data.” Journal of Geophysical Research (1896-1977) 80, no. 1 (1975): 173–79. https://doi.org/10.1029/JA080i001p00173.https://doi.org/10.1029/JA080i001p00173http://hdl.handle.net/11603/33621Our analysis of the Venera 8 measurements yields equatorial morning terminator horizontal and vertical winds that are similar in a number of respects to the winds we obtained from our analysis of the Venera 7 measurements. The lower boundary of the horizontal retrograde ‘4-day’ wind is defined by a 50–60% decrease in wind speed in the vicinity of 44 km, and there exists a retrograde wind ‘plateau’ of 15- to 40-m/s winds extending from 40 km down to the vicinity of 18 km, where the winds decrease rapidly to the order of 0.1 m/s near the surface. Updrafts of 2–5 m/s exist in the vicinity of 20–30 km and are apparently associated with a slightly superadiabatic lapse rate.7 pagesen-USThis work was written as part of one of the author's official duties as an Employee of the United States Government and is therefore a work of the United States Government. In accordance with 17 U.S.C. 105, no copyright protection is available for such works under U.S. Law.Public Domainhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/Text